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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsibilities include: Automating and scaling real-estate advertisement quality initiatives to better the home seeker experience across all the markets we serve; partnering with government regulators to increase transparency in the real-estate market.Achievements:* Raised flagship app rating in Egypt 10% in one quarter through designing and executing price quality initiatives including the use of machine learning to catch click bait priced listings in 6 weeks.* Conceived of and rolled out a communication/monitoring platform that led to the automatic detection and correction of 180K advertisements in a year across multiple geographies through the deployment of different cross team initiatives.* Awarded “Innovation Award” by the Chief Revenue Officer.* Co-led the design and enforcement rules of government regulations in our main market to enhance trust in the real estate sector.* Partnered with the tech arm of the Dubai regulator to improve their API quality of service and influence their product roadmap to build a better user experience for our clients publishing adverts on our platform.

Achievements:* Revamped the desktop landing pages search experience leading to a 5% increase in conversion in less than 2 months.* Developed a CSAT and Voice of the consumer (home seeker) research rhythm used to update upper management on challenges faced by consumers. This research led to several flagship products to solve these challenges including SuperAgent and improved automations to monitor listing quality.* Enhanced consumer search experience across all markets we serve by modifying the ranking algorithm to nudge advertisers to stop posting listings with duplicate images, images with wrong dimensions.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Led product management for the Supply Chain Engineering team at noon that is tasked with building in-house all the software systems that power noon’s fulfillment and logistics operations. My responsibilities include: * Interfacing with different departments within noon and third parties to engineer requirements* Managing product roadmaps and backlogs* Championing products within Noon * Managing agile development processes My achievements include:* Rolling out a complete, new logistics management system with features in time for Yellow Friday, the biggest noon sale of the year.* Managing the development of a near-real time telemetry system to monitor 6,000 drivers in noon’s fleet across the UAE and KSA. * Building a grading app for customer returned items that saved noon over 3 millions of Dirhams per month.* Co-leading the development and rollout of new software to support noon’s daily basket grocery delivery services.

Dubai

Headed the product management department at Fetchr. My responsibilities were to build the product management team; create new products; elicit requirements and manage stakeholders; coordinate development efforts across teams in 4 different countries to deprecate legacy systems all while building new features to support business needs. My achievements include:* Rolling out a new fulfillment module that optimized workflows for operational staff by 2X.* Building a new account management system to replace the old ERP system and reduce data management efforts by account managers saving them hours of work each week.* Building Fetchr's product portfolio and aligning the heads of departments on Fetchr's core service offerings.* Building new features and enhancements for products for major clients including Hands Free Shopping for Majid Al-Futtaim.

Cambridge, Ma

BitSence is an MIT startup that monitors human movement and behavior in physical space using sensors, delivering insights about activity over time to help improve cities, architecture, and real estate developments. BitSence also creates and analyzes relevant environmental conditions (e.g. light intensity and noise levels) that impact people’s comfort in a space. * Led sensor programming; hardware deployment in downtown Boston and cloud services integration (AWS) efforts as part of a successful smart city pilot project with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics.* Engaged with customers in multiple market segments and secured 3 pilot projects as part of product-market fit discovery.* Managed prototype web application development: documented hardware and webapp requirements as well as designed system architecture.* Coordinated with contractors to build full product prototype including a full-stack web developer and a hardware/software engineer.

Bangi, Malaysia

Global Startup Labs (GSL) is a mobile and web technology incubator course taught by MIT students to participants in different countries worldwide. The aim of GSL is to spark technologically driven entrepreneurship in these countries by teaching participants entrepreneurial and technical skills and helping them network with local venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, with the end goal of having the participants build a working prototype and pitch to investors at the end of course. * Taught students the fundamentals of command line tools; Android development and web development using Flask and Django* Mentoring the participants to help them build their mobile/web prototypes for the finale demo day.

Natick, Ma

* Led development efforts to revamp the user experience of our simulation software called the Stateflow debugger. My efforts were recognized internally with an award for best new feature.* Built automated testing tools that uncovered tens of software bugs in a separate flagship software feature set, saving months of testing effort.

Natick, Ma

• Built training materials and delivered training sessions to several batches of new hires to EDG.• Advocated for customers by uncovering their pain points and conveying them to different development teams. End result: many of the pain points were addressed in subsequent releases.

Master’S Degree, System Design And Management

Activities and Societies: Africa Business Club - Led ticketing efforts in the 2016 Africa Innovate conference and helped build a guest.

Master'S Degree, System Design And Management

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical And Computer Engineering. Double Majored In Biomedical Engineering